From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon South Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:25:46 -0400 Message-ID: <1284125146.2190.51.camel@hamlet.localdomain> References: <1284118567.2190.29.camel@hamlet.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284125166 7488 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2010 13:26:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:26:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 15:26:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou3c6-0003f2-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:25:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47386 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou3c5-00069E-P4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:25:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34067 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou3c0-00068K-KE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:25:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou3bz-0003RF-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from caiajhbdcbbj.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.119]:59524 helo=postalmail-a8.g.dreamhost.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou3bz-0003QQ-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:25:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.106] (CPE0019b90fad23-CM00407b87aa6e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.238.107.135]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by postalmail-a8.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDBC2AABB5; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:25:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 (2.30.3-1.fc13) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129892 Archived-At: On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 14:48 +0200, Stefan Monnier wrote: > From the above I gather than the language part of Delphi is basically > the same as Free Pascal, so maybe we could rename it free-pascal.el? Well, it's only one of several dialects Free Pascal understands (and not the default). The actual name of the language is Object Pascal, so how about object-pascal.el? > OK. Indeed from looking at them there didn't seem to be much shared > ancestry. Do you happen to know what major dialect of Pascal is > supported by pascal-mode? No... I'd assume it's standard Pascal (ISO 7185) but I don't know for sure. (Actually, if it isn't, it probably should be.) > Merging seems difficult, indeed. But at least from what you say, it > seems like it would be desirable to try and shape future changes so as > to reduce the differences rather than increase them. Agreed! -- Simon South ssouth@simonsouth.ca